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- In 1967, he played the “guess who” in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, as a young man engaged to a white woman and meeting her parents—played by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy—for the first time.
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Jan 7, 2022 · Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) In perhaps his most iconic role , Poitier plays a doctor who is involved in an interracial relationship with a free-spirited white woman (Katharine...
Jan 7, 2022 · “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” was a tense shoot for Hepburn, as she was consumed by Tracy’s deteriorating health and protective of her niece (who plays “Joanna” in the film). She was in full support of Tracy doing the film and kept an eye on him throughout.
Nov 12, 2023 · Poitier played Dr. John Wade Prentice, a medical doctor shown to be intelligent and considerate in all ways. Prentice works with the World Health Organisation, refuses pre-marital sex when...
Jan 8, 2022 · Joey, however, is describing Dr. John Prentice, whom Poitier plays in "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” a man of such impeccable bona fides — he is assistant director of the World Health ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Sidney Poitier in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Photo: Columbia Pictures. The themes of the film are obvious for the most part. Through the interactions of the two sets of parents and young lovers, racism is explored and examined, but it is done so alongside comedy ranging from clever word play, sight gags and cynicism to irony.
Aug 21, 2014 · Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (Directed by Stanley Kramer in 1967) tells the story of Joey Dayton, (played by Katharine Houghton) a young white woman who falls in love with a black man by the name of John Prentice (Sidney Poitier).
When Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), a free-thinking white woman, and black doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) become engaged, they travel to San Francisco to meet her parents.
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